Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,
White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Conference Swan Beauty
- A Reply by Wang Wei
- A-Haulen O’ The Corn by William Barnes
- What Peace Is Like
- The Changeling by Russell Edson
- Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Раек (РОСТА №8)
- Bobber by Raymond Carver
- On Beer
- I Want It Now by Roald Dahl
- A Prayer For Old Age by William Butler Yeats
- The Mountain Tomb by William Butler Yeats
- The Taste of Morning by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Lohengrin poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Если белогвардейщину не добьем совсем… (РОСТА №148)
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.